Home NAS Recommendations

[William Park]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 09:09:04PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I am planning to set up a fileserver for my home network.  Mainly, this
> is so that when my wife is at home she can sync her laptop and her
> desktop (both Macs) via a quick-and-easy rsync so that both machines are
> always in sync, with an additional copy on the network from which the
> offsite network backup can happen at night.
> 
> I don't want to set up a separate full-sized machine to take this role -
> I'd prefer a small, quiet and inexpensive device that I can plug in and
> will "just work".
> 
> I am looking at these two devices - a Linksys Media Hub or a WD MyBook:
> 
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_357&item_id=023031
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_213_603&item_id=031508
> 
> I would welcome any other suggestions or caveats.  Thanks!

Hmm... how about one of MediaSonic 4-bay boxes:

    http://www.canadacomputers.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=MediaSonic&x=0&y=0

OT:  <rant> I don't know why there isn't regular tower case with easy
loading harddisk slots already built into the case.  This topic comes up
many many times.  And, it would all disappear if we had an easy way of
managing harddisks. </rant>

-- 
William

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